No, I’m not referring to that old Thin Lizzy song; but to our repeater’s cavities instead:
But Thin Lizzy’s not bad either 😉
Fully re-tuned, aligned, lubed and supercharged! The KN5S repeater will be on the air again soon, thanks to David W5DUH for making the trip to Tone City and Jim AB5JK for hooking everything back up. 🙂
It’s been a while since we had one of these for greater Uvalde and surrounding countries; so it might not be a bad idea if you would attend another one of these fine events graciously provided by the National Weather Service.
The Los Moras Amateur Radio Club is hosting such event on April 21st at 6 PM at the Slator Hall in Brackettville, presented by Mr. Jon Zeitler from the NWS. Here’s a map by the magicians at Google:
Please note that the Slator Hall is accross the road from the church. It really is that simple.
N5UMJ bought a brand new digital camera and provided some new pictures of the amplifier he’s still selling. It’s been checked out and declared a “power house”! Check this post right here:
The website’s been moved to a new web host. Customization is still going on. Yeah, I know: it looks a bit “funky” for the time being. Stay tuned!
Only a test. To test the email-sending functionality of the new home of the CARC website. Yeah, it looks butt-ugly; but that won’t last forever! Sorry I can’t make it look “Coyote Ugly” 🙂
Present: Jim AB5JK, Gary K5QOW and Erik K5WW. Absent: too many!
The meeting was called to order at 7:06 PM.
Minutes from the February 2016 were read and approved.
The report from the Treasurer: our sock still contains $926 (but that’s about to change).
K5WW reports that it’s time to renew our web hosting plan, and almost time to renew our domain name. Total cost is $123.51, and that will be good to continue the service for another 3 years. That expense was approved; and K5WW will keep things running.
The repeater is still off the air. By now the duplexers should have been returned; but we haven’t heard back from David W5DUH. He will need to be contacted to see if he and/or the duplexers are stuck in San Antonio.
Update on the powerline interference: K5WW was contacted by the AEP spokesman last week, who claimed that “our problems have been fixed!”. After checking it turns out that the noise in the alley we reported weeks ago has indeed disappeared. But there are still many other sources of interference around us, making HF communication all but impossible. The next site that needs to be reported is the road between Whataburger and Garner Field Road, where clearly lots of bad things are happening to the grid. This will be a very long project…
Next month: elections for club officers!
The meeting was adjourned at 7:52 PM.
For my Belgian relatives and friends, on this sad day. (K5WW)
Elections are not until April. Oops, sorry!
But the meeting’s still tomorrow 🙂
will be on Tuesday March 22. It’s time to hold elections! Be there 🙂
And if it ends up sideways on Facebook: we don’t give a hoot! 😉
That guy Jay made 214 QSOs in the February NA QP RTTY, until he got interrupted by a crew from AEP. They finally verified and found the problem; and are going to start replacing hardware!
Because of that the contest got cut short; but still plenty of fun.
